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GAMIFYING NURSING EDUCATION?! Yes, you can!!
Imagine learning clinical decision-making not from a textbook… but from a VR quest, an avatar-led mission, or a score-based challenge.That’s not the future. That’s now - and it’s all in our newly-published review in Information MDPI! What’s inside? 69 nursing serious...
The INVITE project was presented last week at the 11th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’25) in Valencia, Spain.
The INVITE project was presented last week at the 11th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’25) in Valencia, Spain.Alice Barana delivered a presentation on...
Our latest publication as part of the INVITE Project is released!
Read now a comprehensive overview of how hackathon events are transforming innovation in education.We compare four hackathon events organized under the “INVITE” Erasmus+ project,...
HMU Open Days 2023
During March 2023, from 13/03 until 24/04 to be specific, schools from the Heraklion area had the unique opportunity to participate in the "Open Days" event at Hellenic Mediterranean University. As part of this, the Natural Interactive Learning Games and Environments...
WaterWays Partners Meeting in Cyprus
We're excited to announce that from March 7th to March 9th, ANET Troodοs hosted a very successful partner meeting for the Waterways project, in Cyprus. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for all partners to showcase their progress and test some of the...
WaterWays Project Meeting in Sitia
During the week we had the chance to meet with our partners for the WaterWays project, funded by Interreg, in Sitia. During the meeting we had fruitful conversations that will feed the future development of the project, but also presentations of work already done and...
Two New Chapters Published!
Today we joyfully announce the publication of the book on The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities, by Stamatis Papadakis (University of Crete, Greece) and Alexandros Kapaniaris (Hellenic Open University, Greece), in which 2 chapters are contributed...
Speech at the Foreign language education day 2022
Today Dr. Vidakis is proudly giving a speech at the Foreign language education day 2022, located at Galaxy Hotel, in Heraklion. Hope to see you there!
Participation in Educational Interest round table
During the 4th Panhellenic Scientific Conference on The Transformation of the school in the 21st century, Dr. Nikolaos Vidakis, representing our laboratory, partook in the round table on the topic "Teaching European values through Eramsus+: Democracy and Inclusion,...
New NILE Lab Promo Video
We proudly present a new promo video for our lab!
Recycle Game Presentation
Today we presented our serious game about recycling to a class of Master Students at Hellenic Mediterranean University. We discussed topics such as Game Based Learning, Learning Analytics, and Technical details of creating games for different platforms. A very...
NILE Participation in Digifest 2022
NILE is Participating in this years Student Festival of Digital Creation (Digifest), in Heraklion. There, we presented a short version of the Recycle Game, and invited students to play and learn!
Content manager for serious games
We are happy to announce that our research paper “Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform” has been published in the journal Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research. Read the study Abstract: In education, digital or...